The Mist and the Lightning. Part IV. Ви Корс

she came! The deal was licking her till she comes, it’s not my fault she comes with me faster than she comes with you!”

      “Now the looser would lick Tol’s ass” – Lis said, laughing. His black hair framed his pale grey face like dark tangled icicles.

      “That’s exactly what I’m talking about”, – Tol agreed, “You wouldn’t, and nobody would!”

      “Nikto might!”

      “Very funny,” – Nikto grunted. His had was at Orel’s lap, and he fumbled Nik’s hair involuntarily. His fingers softly untangled thick white strands, all mats and tangles.

      “You mean not a single one of you would do it!”

      “We could make normal wishes, like to tell something, some interesting life incidents, for example” – Enriki suggested.

      “It’s boring!” – Tol whined.

      “Not at all! Besides, if Carina wakes up, comes down here and sees all of us fucking Asa, she might not understand it was just a game!”

      “For how long can we fuck Asa?” – Orel mumbled, “Aren’t you fuckin’ fed up?”

      “We are” – Lis responded. “Tol, we’re fuckin’ fed up with fucking your Asa”.

      “So you won’t get her anymore!” – Tol snarled.

      “Oh, like she needs your permission to fuck! I personally fucked her, back when you weren’t giving her away to anybody, wouldn’t even let anybody touch your precious Asa.

      “Me too”, – Enriki pitched in. “She’s a whore”.

      Tol twisted his lips: “No”.

      “Should I summon Mina?” – Orel asked.

      “We are fed up with her, too! We don’t even have a single normal girls here, Arel!” – Enriki sounded displeased.

      “Call your sister then!” – He snarled back.

      Everybody froze, and Enriki went pale.

      “So, we are going to tell stories” – Tol said gingerly. “Nik, tell us about your Rosa, how did it all happen?” – He added, seeing that everybody are still quiet.

      “How did the two of you fuck?” – Lis specified gloomily.

      “I didn’t lose yet” – Nikto argued, touching his scarred cheek involuntarily, “and I don’t like reminiscing it”.

      “Why didn’t you follow her to the “upper world”, if you are still suffering? What stopped you from going up there and finding her?” – Enriki asked.

      “Looking like this?!”

      “After all, if your story is true, it was all Rosa’s fault!”

      “And if she truly loved you, would she reject you?” – Orel added, “Regardless of what you became.”

      “While protecting her!” – Tol added meaningfully.

      “And be like an endless reproach to her?”

      “I never thought you would sweat it so much!” – Enriki was surprised, “You are now talking as a common man, not even a warrior”.

      “Like a weak kid” – Orel said, “‘I couldn’t let her see me like this!’ Beaten, mutilated. Who is she, she’s just a woman, and that’s it!”

      Nikto was silent.

      “You don’t get it” – he finally said. “She was a ‘white’, a genuine ‘white’ “…

      “And you are Nikto, right?” – Lis snorted.

      “Right”.

      “I don’t have any respect for your human part” – Enriki said, – “It would be better if your demon suppressed it completely!”

      “Fuck, I don’t understand what’s the deal with still considering Nik a human possessed by a demon” – Orel said grumpily. “It’s so dumb! This bullshit just pisses me off, and you, smart-looking people, insist on thinking of him as of someone redone, undone, possessed! You feeling ok?!”

      Enriki blushed: “Fine! And what’s so dumb about it? I don’t see anything dumb here!”

      “Andin my opinion, it’s just dumbness! I mean, Nick was living happily in his…what’s it’s called… oh, never mind, and then bam! A demon possessed him! What’s happening?! What for?!”

      “Maybe he called the demon himself” – Squint-Eye suggested, “to become more powerful and to get back at his enemies”.

      “What enemies?!”

      “The Reds”.

      “Oh, ok. Only instead of getting back at the Reds, he went straight to the Blacks’ ‘farm’!”

      “Well, the demon must have had an agenda of his own”.

      “Yes, everybody knows that the demons are just like that. You want something from them, and you end up getting the complete opposite”.

      “Well, yes”.

      The friends laughed at Orel’s ironic tone.

      “I never said the demon possessed him like that” – Enriki tried to argue. “It’s just that if he was sold to a witch as a child, she must have been the one who turned him in to the dark powers. Sacrificed him. You understand what I’m talking about, Arel? Otherwise, why would she need a child? He was meant as a present, a sacrifice to demon from the beginning. Or maybe she obeyed the demon’s command, and he needed a body to penetrate into our world. That’s why Nikto’s human part is undeveloped and squalid. He is just meant to obey and be passive. That was also done by the witch, to make it easier for the demon. I mean, you guys can’t argue that Nikto is obedient most of the time, and resembles a wind-up toy”.

      “Just like a rabbit with cymbals!” – Tol cried excitedly.

      “And Rosa was totally unnecessary to the demon,” – Enriki continued, completely ignoring Tol’s outburst, as usual, – “on the contrary, she was standing on his way, nearly ruined the whole thing. Made Nikto fall in love, evoked some feelings, he became defiant, but being unexperienced, got jammed up right away and almost screwed up the whole thing. And of course, the buds of his free will where suppressed again, and he went where he had to go. Spreading chaos in our world, east, then west, and now in the very heart at the City.

      “You don’t mind me being here” – Nikto interrupted. During their conversation he lifted his head from Orel’s lap and now was sitting next to him, his face twisted. “Hope I’m not bothering you”.

      “Not at all” – Lis replied.

      “I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings” – Enriki explained. “It’s just my personal opinion, I was just expressing it. Would you prefer me to do it behind your back?”

      “He would prefer you not to express it at all” – Lis grinned.

      “Whatever happened to you – it was not your will, nor your fault. It just happened.

      “Bad luck” – Squint-Eye said.

      “Oh, go to hell! One of you thinks I’m just your reflection, another one – that I’m a rabbit with cymbals! I’m so tired of this shit pouring on me every day! You guys just haven’t heard